LINKs and stuff

[lydamorehouse]

A couple of fun links that are AngeLINK related. Credit for finding them both belongs to my partner Shawn.

First from Boing-Boing, because you know you heathens will need access to your computer files AFTER the Rapture:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/05/postrapture-document.html

Second from Mainichi Daily News, the newest technology in headstones:

Hi-tech Tombstones in Japan

In other, life-related news, I'm at my alternative coffee shop again this morning because my favorite place is STILL having wifi problems. Dial-up at home sucks so badly that it's almost not worth bothering, except when I can't stand it. My kingdom for wifi!

Mason and I were at a Barnes & Noble yesterday afternoon and he bought a gigantic book of mazes and a dot-to-dot book (both of which were on the bargain rack), and I ended up having a long talk with the really helpful friendly guy in the travel section about books about Cairo. He actually put a book on hold for me over at the Barnes & Noble at HarMar which is all about Cairo and nothing else. I'm really excited to go pick it up because I'm at that point in writing where a bit of scenery would be nice. Not having internet access has really affected my ability to write. As swords_and_pens talked about yesterday, it's amazing how quickly you get used to being able to just hop on-line for a little fact-checking/research. Not having that ability has really affected my flow. However, the very best thing about writing science fiction as opposed to Tate's contemporary fantasy is that I can make things up. Cairo needs to have familiar landscape, but given the massive destruction caused by taking out the Aswan dams I have a lot of wiggle room. Apparently, the dam is already under a lot of stress because of all the silt that the river carries that it used to dump on the floodplain. So I can actually bury huges parts of Egypt in silt if I need to. Bonus! Stuff I don't have to get right!

Plus, there's still hardcopy. Shawn is a bit of a collector of encylopedia(s? um?) and so I looked up Cairo the other night. Did you know Cairo is the African Hollywood? Apparently most of the movies coming out of Africa and the Middle East are produced/filmed in Cairo... or were in the 1960s. Somehow that's going to work its way into the novel, I just know it.

Oh, and the fish are doing well, and so now my current obsession are the plants. They're turning yellow. My problem, I suspect, is my lighting. I don't have very good lighting (it's just a clip-on lamp with a full-spectrum blub in it) and they really need flourescent if they're going to thrive. I made a video of the new tank that I'm going to try to remember to post on YouTube tomorrow. Because the world needs more video clips of my fish.

I see none of us have posted over at Wyrdsmiths, so I'm going to go throw something up there now.

Comments

[naomikritzer]

If I believed in the Rapture, I'd go with the ethical atheists over the believers with a "dead man's switch" (what if there's a network outage?)

http://postrapturepost.com/index.html

[seanmmurphy.livejournal.com]

(Psst. You'll probably want to correct swords_and_pens link through.)

(Or not. Up to you.)

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